SURFACE INQUIRIES

Form and Content Gallery presents Surface Inquiries, new oil and acrylic paintings by Mark Ostapchuk. Mark Ostapchuk’s current paintings feature an obsessive manner of applied layering and sanding and rebuilding opaque and translucent surfaces. These paintings introduce simple patterns and shapes encountered in everyday domestic life. Within these pictures, shapes and patterns in space, suggest characters in situations and places.

Artist’s Biography
Mark Ostapchuk lives and works in Minneapolis. He has shown in the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, University of Minnesota Gallery (now Weisman Art Museum), Soap Factory (Minneapolis), Phipps Center for the Arts and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Mark Ostapchuk received his MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His awards include the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship.

Exhibition Dates: December 09, 2021 - January 22, 2022 Closed December 24, December 25 and January 01

Artist Conversation
Saturday, January 15, 2021, 12:30 – 4:30 pm Informal meet up, Q.& A. and discussions.

Closing Reception and Other Events
TBA

Exhibition Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Appointments are not required. If you wish to visit outside of gallery hours please email formandcontent@gmail to make an appointment.

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